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Sunday, April 30, 2017

THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND SHAMANISM

The following post is entirely quoted from Ronald Thomas West. https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2013/04/30/the-dia-and-shamanism/This is longer than my 1,000 word standard. Since I'm not engaged in warfare, I'll point out that these ideas also work in civilian contexts. I don't agree with everything here, but many of us are arriving at a similar position, even scientists. Recent political stories are persuasive.“The real challenge for the United States is not asymmetrical warfare, but rather what this writer calls
transcendent warfare, the ability to conceptualize and subsequently
actualize an entirely new form of warfare that transcends all previously
known models. Said ability could enable a nation state or other entity to redefine and to advance warfare to a completely different level or dimension, possibly comprehensible by only a selected but powerful few”Indeed. And those powerful few need not belong to any
nation-state. Nor to any organization. Nor be limited to ‘Remote
Viewing.” In fact ‘remote viewing’ (as known to indigenous shamanism,
but they do not call it that) is but one aspect of a phenomena of which
knowing how to ‘read’ (entirely unknown to the Marine Corps study
author) is every bit as important as knowing how to ‘see’

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The DIA and Shamanism

‘The spirit puts into the mind of a man, to know what to do’ –Native American ProverbThe Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA and FBI, all, have sought the
Native American knowledge and advanced understanding of ‘remote
viewing’, the Native grasp of this phenomena having been far and away
superior to any of the western psychics. Native ‘Remote Viewing’, simply
put, is the ability to picture and follow events at a distance, in real
time, using only the mind.The Native ability to do this had been, prior to the enforced
Anglo-centric education in modern day Indian country, truly phenomenal.
And this fact, the enforced western education, is the first clue to the
DIA failure. Coinciding with the western education destroying Native
thought forms, is the language barrier, wherein Native concept does not
easily translate to western, this is the second clue, and underlying
this is the coup de grace; a world view so fundamentally different to
western, to bring the understanding across would require a rare and
uniquely qualified person indeed. I happen to be that person, and I
don’t work for the DIA.In the 1930s, noted linguist Benjamin Whorf postulated language
shapes reality (and that Natives know a reality the westerners cannot
see), following his learning and subsequent study of Hopi Language. His
work on this observed a different concept of time and ultimately led to
his (argued over by academics ever since) conclusion there is a distinct
similarity in Hopi language to Einstein’s theory of relativity. Hence
Whorf’s theory or variant of ‘linguistic relativity’ came into being.Following Whorf’s pioneering (and much disputed) work, noted ‘action
anthropologist’ Karl Schlesier, observed in his book ‘The Wolves of
Heaven’ (on Cheyenne shamanism) the resemblance of Cheyenne world view
to famed Einstein associate and theoretical physicist David Boehm’s
theories. Boehm himself, altogether independently of Schlesier’s
observation, entered into an exploratory dialogue on the subject of a
Native American world view relationship to Quantum Mechanics with a
Canadian Blackfoot Indian, Leroy Little Bear, Director of Native Studies
at Harvard. Following Boehm’s death, this dialogue, now comprising a
mix of mostly western scientists, some specialized in physics and others
in Native American Studies (a form of Western cultural anthropology),
had been relocated to SEED Open University at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
It was at SEED the dialogue had hosted keynote speaker James O’Dea, then
president of the Institute of Noetic Science, and by this time the
entire process had been fairly hijacked by New Age influenced science
and become hopelessly misguided. How this ties into the DIA will be
dealt with in the narrative of this article.Reputedly based on work initiated in part by the [then new] Institute
of Noetic Sciences in the early 1970s, by 1995 the Department of
Defense ostensibly discontinued funding of research into remote viewing:“The foregoing observations provide a compelling argument against
continuation of the program within the intelligence community. Even
though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the
laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal
phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. “An Evaluation of
Remote Viewing: Research and Applications” -American Institutes for
Research, Sept. 29, 1995The problem with this [foregoing] statement, particularly the language “..it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated” is,
the Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA and FBI, all, are aware in fact it
is VERY CLEAR there is ‘existence of a paranormal phenomenon, ‘remote
viewing’’, based on investigations into the Native American use of
remote viewing technique. Remote viewing had been taken into the lab for
studies for a period of roughly two decades. Considering this had been a
Defense Intelligence Agency funded study, and further considering the
Department of Defense spent $350 million on brain research studies in
2011 alone, and in fact remote viewing is known to have highly detailed
and reliable instance outside of the lab (in indigenous cultures), it
would seem more likely the effort to exploit this indigenous knowledge
had shifted away from the lab failures and amateur efforts of western
psychics and into clandestine cultural anthropology fieldwork. This
thought is supported by a short study onTranscendental Warfare at the United States Marine Corps War College, proposing the CIA [or the DIA] may have done exactly that.Bolstering this preceding thought is the fact momentous steps have
been taken in the field of Quantum Mechanics since the 1980s
particularly, to a point where today’s theoretical physicist Bernard
d’Espagnat can state:“The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence
is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with
quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment”The problem faced by DIA/CIA in this instance is, all lab science to
now has been based largely on Cartesian dualism relevant to matter, the
scientists brains are trained up this way and suddenly the DIA finds
itself dealing with an unexplored unity principle, insofar as pursuing
indigenous knowledge. The vaunted laboratories of western empiricism are
in fact useless to pursue what lies beyond the grasp of nearly the
entire body of science on account of how the mentalities of the
scientists themselves are shaped through life-long training. Suddenly it
makes sense to revert to cultural anthropology in the chase for an
understanding of reality beyond the present purview of western
knowledge, bringing them to Benjamin Worf’s work as a point of
reference. I will propose not only did the DIA throw away much money in
the lab, but continue to chase rabbit trails with their penetration of
Institute of Noetic Sciences shamanic studies, where there is as much
self-deceit generally, as there is in a culture particularly devoted to
exploitation of phenomenal nature they had failed to grasp from the time
of Plato and the inception of western science.Native languages are pretty much ‘noun free’ languages, where
everything is described in terms of process, and process is a moving
thing, hence the Native differing concept of ‘time.’ The present is
never static, it is always perceived as moving and you are moving with
it. Past and future, both, have a present tense. Our world is perceived
as a living clock of sorts, the clock is time in motion and we all are
part and parcel of this clock. So, it is easy to see how the western
mentality is not equipped to fathom Native thought and its attending
abilities and how enforced western educations in Cartesian based or
Platonic philosophies and concepts of time would destroy the abilities
of the present Native generations through the deprivation of their
language and its attending intelligence. Simply put, western education,
from a Native Quantum Mechanics based perception of reality, dumbs
people down, severely.How is the ancient native mind shaped? From infancy, the child is
included in nearly everything. An infant sleeps with their parents until
they wean themselves, that could be to age three or four. A baby that
does not wish to be held, must not be held. A toddler is distracted and
enticed away from danger rather than shouted at. Behavior is explained,
never demanded. The children are NEVER lied to. Teaching the child is
primarily via setting highest ethical example. The same respect accorded
the child is accorded all living things, to include trees and even
stones. The is no ‘adult’ world versus a child’s world.The result of this upbringing is the child learning to ‘see’ the
world they live in, the ‘living clock’, as a state of
self-integrated/ongoing process. The ‘product’ of this process is people
who cannot be told what to do except that they should decide for
themselves following a leader is in their best interest. Western
educations, of course, kill this process, and development in the ancient
Native mentality is arrested. But it was my good fortune to experience
teachers in the truly ancient Native mentality, and at a point in life I
was prepared to listen and discipline myself in ways westerners, as a
class, are nearly incapable of, particularly the males. And so it is,
over a span of three decades, I learned to ‘see.’ Once set down that
road free of the constraints of western culture and education, the
‘sight’ only grows, for the entirety of one’s life. Cartesian/Platonic
mentalities can never fully know this, or that is to say ‘science’ and
mentalities trained in western thought. The Cartesian/Platonic
disciplined mentality is ‘masculinized’ out of the ability to ‘see’ from
infancy. And though it may be possible for the western mentality to
intellectually grasp this (or westernized mentality, e.g. Leroy Little Bear),
it would be nearly impossible, for the males particularly, to overcome
how their minds have been shaped and actually ‘know’ these phenomena,
except they were able to authentically reject everything they have
learned, a highly unlikely prospect, and begin from scratch. Ready to
throw away that PhD, as well everything you’ve learned since in the
womb, and begin all over again at age 30-50? They can’t do it. Even were
there necessarily qualified Native teachers remaining who would agree
to share their knowledge, something a properly trained ‘seer’ would
NEVER do for DIA, because it would take them out of alignment with the
living clock and consequently out the window would go their gift of
sight. Why? Simply recall d’Espagnat stating human consciousness cannot
be arbitrarily separated from objects, which is what Cartesian-Platonic
shaped science sets out to do.When contrasted to the ‘living clock’ Native understanding of
reality, the Native could be said to be allergic to the western concept
of reality, which is almost certainly why the gifted Native cosmologist,
Leon Secatero, became ill and died, following his immersion in Western
culture. Leon had tried to bring related ideas from Native Quantum
reality across, to among others, Seed Open University, in that
organization’s attempts to ‘feminize’ the masculine western reality, but
the fact remains the result is not Native reality, but instead a
‘feminized’ western masculine reality. There cannot be any honest
integration of the western duality outside of the ‘living clock’,
because the androgynous nature of intention in the living nature aspect
we are all meant to be integrated to, cannot know separation from the
self. This requirement of Cartesian/Platonic philosophy shapes the
western culture’s mentalities which only know intention as manipulation
exterior to any integrated to Nature experience. Nature hates you and
you will die.A short manner of restating all of this preceding is, if “the kingdom
of heaven is within”, and you “must be like little children” to get
there, a culture subsequently shaped by the worship of a sadistic
political murder of those very ideas, can never know the experience.Having much of my youth in close proximity to the Montana Blackfeet
and knowing Indians growing up, it was a no-brainer [in my thinking] to
immerse in that culture when I’d realized I was not adjusting to western
culture on my return from Vietnam. Our Indian tribes have a special
–and different- relationship to their veterans and the fact of my being a
veteran, as well acquainted with Indians for some years already, eased
my move into that culture in the middle 1970s. I immersed in the
Blackfoot language community, their way of life and ceremony. I was
fortunate to be initially ‘adopted’ by an old couple living on the Rocky
Mountain Front, south of Browning, Montana. He was a healer, she was a
‘seer.’ Via my relationship to this old couple, I became a member of the
‘Black Door’ clan.I gathered fire wood for the old couple, cut holes in the ice at the
edge of a small lake, so their few cows could drink, made better deals
for them when doing business with White ranchers to buy hay and was
their driver. The old woman, the ‘seer’, was my primary teacher. I
learned to play the ‘stick game’ and became perhaps the only White grandmaster,
of that ancient oracle, in Blackfoot history. To be a grandmaster
player of the stick game, you must be able to ‘see’ and to ‘see’ quite
well. But what the old lady could do, outside of the context of that [in
my case] ‘training’ game, was extraordinary. She was reminiscing one
time about her younger days when she’d owned a small accordion and was
thinking aloud she would like to play one again. Then she looked at me
and said “Ron, you know someone who will give me an accordion.” I did
not say anything, did not react, only waited for her to continue. She
described a man she was absolutely certain I would know, and thinking
about it, I thought perhaps she was talking about a German neighbor I’d
known growing up but I’d never known him to play accordion. I drove her
across the mountains to visit this man I’d not seen in several years, he
welcomed us, listened to my explanation, produced an accordion from his
storage closet and gave it to her.I thought that was a pretty interesting event, but it paled by
comparison to events to come. Going to this thought, I will recount one
more of the old lady’s ability to ‘see’ that was nothing short of
amazing. In the 1970s reservation area south of Browning, telephones
were nearly unknown. Our rural house had electric lights and that was
it. But with the old lady around, we did not need any form of electronic
communications. One day she announced we would drive to the house of
people she knew on the Blood Indian (Canadian Blackfeet) Reserve at
Cardston, Alberta. We would wait there and there would be people driving
from the other direction, looking for a healer skilled in the art the
old man knew, and they would stop at that house to inquire. I drove the
old couple to their stated destination and there we waited and in drove a
car of Cree Indians from the north, looking for a healer with a certain
ability and the old man was already there, waiting for them. It worked
out precisely as the old lady had stated it would, consistent with our
planned timeline and departure. In 1981 the old man became ill, he
eventually died and she retired. Then began my next experiences, with a
new teacher.It was in 1981, having moved to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
on the border of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation west of Browning, a
remarkable man knocked on my door. This man was Pat Kennedy, a Plains
Ojibwa Oral Historian and Medicine Man who had married into the
Blackfeet tribe 30 years before. Speaking seven native languages
fluently, including the Blackfeet language, and with a fluent and
creative use of the native pidgin English we held our initial
conversation in, Pat had never been to school. His Irish name had been
assigned to his family by the government when the apartheid system
called Indian reservations had been established. When Pat had knocked
and I opened the door for him, his introduction was: “I’m Pat Kennedy. I
like where your house is and I would like to use it for ceremony.” For
the following 24 years, until he died, I was this remarkable man’s
student and became one of his close and best friends. For the first
eight years of my learning with Pat, I traveled with him widely and met
other masters of the Native American science based in advanced
understanding of Quantum Mechanics. These people live a reality that can
only be described in western terminology as sort of low key ‘lucid
dreaming.’ Here again I met ‘seers’ with uncanny accuracy in describing
real time events which manifest precisely as predicted, in one instance
it had been announced by a ‘seer’ another medicine man was approaching
in company of several persons he was not acquainted with. The old man
detailed each individual precisely as they appeared on arrival. Now
begins the journey of several ‘coincidence’ [noting coincidence is not a
valid concept in Native American thought] that take Pat and myself to
the Institute for Noetic Sciences, but first a bit more on the ‘seers’
in Indian country, and Pat’s relating experience to me about meeting the
FBI and information on ‘others’ involved with seeking out Native
American’s gifted with accurate real time ‘remote viewing’ skill.Pat related to me that, some years previous to our becoming
acquainted, he had been one of the Indians the FBI had expressed an
interest in, on account of ‘remote viewing’ (Pat did not call it that)
and he had initially been amenable to meeting with these people but soon
changed his mind and decided not to work with them. The best way I can
explain Pat’s and other of the valid Native seers rationale, is to state
a well know fact in Indian country: “Coyote is crazy because he has a maggot in his brain.”
Now, if the FBI (or for that matter, the DIA/CIA) were to hear this
perfectly logical statement (to the ancient Indian mentality) given as a
reason (the Indians do not provide the reasoning, they simply do not
show up), they’d be stumped, because they cannot translate Native
thinking to begin with, let alone Native proverbs. What has actually
been stated concerning Coyote is crazy because he has a maggot in his brain
in relation to the FBI is, ‘these people are killers.’ Alternatively it
is a polite way of saying ‘we saw a murder agenda.’ Well, of course
they would see an agenda, where any agenda might be, because they are
‘seers.’ So, in the end, the FBI, CIA and DIA investigations of the
Native ‘seer’ phenomena, became stuck with the petty sorcerers, the
self-employed dilettantes and out & out fakes in Indian country,
because the real McCoy wanted nothing to do with them. This coyote
proverb refers to an ancient method of murder in Native America, by
introducing a particular larva into the nostril of a sleeping person, a
method that almost invariably killed the victim, after a period of
insanity. In certain contexts, Coyote represents the Mankind when at his
worst behavior.In the ‘living clock’, which has its own power of volition, there is
no concept of coincidence or accident. And so it was my teacher, Pat
Kennedy, had been the first Native American awarded the “Temple Prize”,
for creative altruism, by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in 1997. On
first sight, the actual award was a disaster. Nominated by an IONS
member so low as to be a worm, speaking of the dualistic nature of many
western personalities, the man’s name is not worth mentioning here, but
better consigned to the ash heap of history. Once the prize had been
confirmed as awarded to Pat, his nominator had a panic attack of ego
driven self-importance and the moron completely and totally hijacked
Pat, in a quite literal sense. Rather than allow Pat to ‘see his way
through’, which would include the route taken on the drive to Palm
Springs for the award ceremony, the nominating ‘worm’ who’d manifested a
side no one of us (except his ex-wife, I called her and was debriefed
after the fact) had seen before, took the wheel in a fury of
self-importance and direct intention he would be ‘the man.’ As it
happened, I’d taken a carload of other supporting cast from Indian
country, on a separate route and arrived at the IONS convention site
first. Pat arrived literally shocked, battered and bruised, his ‘worm
chauffer’ had hit the brakes so hard on the drive down that Pat, in a
wheelchair recovering from surgery, had been sent flying across the van
and crashed inside, wheelchair pounding him on top of having been
violently thrown out of it. I assessed the circumstance, saw the totally
changed personality and emergence of the ‘worm’ only in it for himself
and stepped in as Pat’s inseparable bodyguard.For an ancient Native mentality, to be knocked out of the timing, can
be fatal. Pat was not able to recover his equilibrium but at least I
was able to keep him from the ‘worm’s’ intentional self aggrandizing
ego-inflation and other persons who would be pleased to exploit him. For
Pat, it was all worthwhile in the end, because he was able to spend the
better part of two hours in a private conversation with ‘the man who’d
gone to the Moon’ [Edgar Mitchell] while I sat nearby with a near
literal ‘I’ll kill you’ look for anyone who it even crossed their mind
to get close to the two of them as they talked. Pat used the prize money
to begin a series of annual ‘Peace Camps.’Meanwhile, in the early 2000s, I’d taken an interest in the SEED Open
University’s sponsorship of ‘Language of Spirit’ dialogues, originally
initiated by the theoretical physicist and Einstein associate David
Boehm, attempting reconciling Native American Quantum reality to western
science. Concurrent to this I was also investigating organized crime in
government related to American intelligence agencies and charter
schools providing cover/training environment, for CIA officers. It is no
accident the famed Anna Chapman Russian spy ring appears never to have
gotten any closer to Americans with sensitive connections and
information than charter schools. But if you are the USA
counter-intelligence authorities and the massive push for, and funding
of, charter schools as cover for intelligence embeds throughout society,
this is not something you’d want to escape the ‘pound’ and most
certainly the USA would prefer the Russians looked incompetent,
something they most certainly are not, in matters of HUMIT (human
intelligence, i.e. spies.) Meanwhile, having penetrated a charter school
serving precisely this purpose, the East Mountain High School at Sandia
Park, New Mexico, staffed in some part by CIA, I was also attending the
SEED dialogues in Albuquerque, with a continuing interest in bridging
the chasm between Native American Quantum reality and western concept,
if only to try and point out to the Cartesian/ Platonic science they are
at a world threatening dead end, with their attitude and approach shaped
by western thought.The expression ‘as fate would have it’, a dim memory in western
culture of faraway time lived in the ‘clock’ that is nature, is an
apropos expression to describe what happens next. Former Amnesty
International (USA) board director Francis Boyle had stated:“My conclusion was that a high-level official of Amnesty
International at that time, whom I will not name, was a British
intelligence agent. Moreover, my fellow board member, who also
investigated this independently of me, reached the exact same
conclusion. So certainly when I am dealing with people who want to work
with Amnesty in London, I just tell them, “Look, just understand,
they’re penetrated by intelligence agents, U.K., maybe U.S., I don’t
know, but you certainly can’t trust them”And viola! A MI6 officer, James O’Dea, in a quid pro quo relationship
with DIA/CIA based on information sharing, had gone from Director of
the Amnesty International’s Washington DC office, to head up the
Institute of Noetic Sciences and took enough interest in the dialogues
at SEED, in Albuquerque, to attend as “keynote speaker”, where we became
acquainted. In fact O’Dea took a direct interest in me at this event.
It was not long after this, by now I’d penetrated the spy cover at the
East Mountain High School to stir a hornet’s nest of intelligence agency
paranoia, I’d experienced my first brush with assassination in some
years, since I’d been an civil investigator in Indian country. I had to
bail out of the USA and within four months of my arrival in Germany
exile, a senior CIA trainer from the school, assassin Vince Langan, made
the first attempt on my life abroad and blew it because I know how to ‘see’
my way through. And although I knew James O’Dea personally, and had
copied him on communications prior to sorting this, Amnesty
International had shut down any hearing of my fugitive status, cold.
Former Amnesty executive O’Dea, with it all falling apart, quit IONS and
returned to ‘international work’, likely to assist tracking down and
eliminating this reporter. Since, Amnesty International has provided new
leadership to Freedom House, a CIA front fingered by rogue CIA Officer
Phillip Agee, when Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn took over that organization.
And so it is humanitarian organizations intermingle with intelligence
agencies in support of humanitarian violence.The nice thing is, the ‘living clock’ is failsafe, Cartesian-Platonic
shaped personalities will never be able to exploit it. The DIA, CIA and
FBI come out the losers, irrespective of what happens to me.

The author, Ronald Thomas West, is an anti-corruption investigator
with military special operations intelligence experience, author of
exposés on the power-corrupt and fugitive from multiple intelligence
agencies since 2007

2 comments:

Hi Mary - I'm not sure what to say in response to this post, except that its appeal is surprisingly deep.

Tangentially: I cannot recall if you have commented yet on Robert Lanza (who's been given some glancing consideration in some of the aggregates you and I feed at) but thought I'd share this podcast interview regardless.

Thanks for your alertness in this human enterprise about understanding what we are and how we work. I think there is too much to say to continue my response in a comment, so I'll post in a few days. Lanza seems like an important, even KEY, person to investigate.

Speaking of investigations, news that the first warrants on the Trump/Russia fiasco has broken, but is not confirmed. They are evidently "sealed" warrants. This whole thing makes me hyperalert to the enormous shift since we seem to have come to the end of WWII governing arrangements and shifting demographics have made these old white men who stand behind Trump not only obsolete but probably dying from heart failure and Alzheimers. I'd be willing to bet that only about ten per cent can operate a computer.